Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy.
Econ Hum Biol. 2022 Aug;46:101152. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101152. Epub 2022 Jun 7.
Using the 8th wave of the SHARE and the SHARE Corona Survey, we investigated whether the disruption of parent-adult child contacts due to social distancing restrictions increased the symptoms of depression among old age individuals during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We model the relationship between the disruption of parent-adult child contacts and the mental health of the elderly using a recursive simultaneous equation model for binary variables. Our findings show that the likelihood of disruption of parent-adult child contacts was higher with adult children who do not live with or close to their parents (i.e., in the same household or in the same building) for whom contact disruption increases about 15 %. The duration of restrictions to movement and lockdowns also has a positive and significant effect on parent-child contact disruption: an additional week of lockdown significantly increases the probability of parent-child contact disruption, by about 1.5 %. The interventions deemed essential to reduce the spread of the pandemic, such as the "stay-at-home" order, necessarily disrupted personal parent-child contacts and the social processes that facilitate psychological well-being, increasing the probability of suffering from a deepening depressed mood by about 17 % for elderly parents.
利用 SHARE 研究的第 8 波数据和 SHARE Corona 调查数据，我们考察了由于社交距离限制而导致的亲子接触中断是否会在 COVID-19 大流行的第一波期间增加老年人的抑郁症状。我们使用二元变量的递归联立方程模型来模拟亲子接触中断与老年人心理健康之间的关系。研究结果表明，与不住在一起或不与父母住得很近的成年子女（即在同一家庭或同一栋楼中）相比，亲子接触中断的可能性更高，接触中断增加了约 15%。行动限制和封锁的持续时间也对亲子接触中断产生了积极且显著的影响：额外的一周封锁显著增加了亲子接触中断的可能性，大约增加了 1.5%。被认为对减少大流行传播至关重要的干预措施，如“居家令”，必然会打断个人的亲子接触以及促进心理健康的社会进程，使老年父母患深度抑郁情绪的可能性增加了约 17%。
